CODING ━ grey's anatomy

chapter thirty five

"Why are you—"

"That day, I told you, you owe me. And I realized, I never cashed that in." Cassie gave him a dazzling grin. "You owe me still."

Derek looked at her confused. "What do you want, exactly?"

"I want to be on your service today."

"You—" he stuttered, "you realize I would've said yes if you just asked, right?"

"Well, here's the thing," she paused. "Bailey put me on scut, and she's very intent on me staying on scut."

Derek's eyes widened. "Oh, no. Bailey is scary. Absolutely not."

"You owe me!"

"Sorry, but no."

Cassie glared at him. "Fine. Then I'm calling mom right now to set the record straight."

She quickly turned the opposite direction, leaving him standing alone in the middle of the hallway.

"Oh, crap," Derek grumbled to himself, watching Cassie dial on her phone as she walked away. "She's actually doing it."

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Cassie peeked over George's shoulder to get a view of the person in the conference room with the Chief. "You know, this is the one situation where being tall doesn't help," she sighed.

"Have you guys seen Bailey?" Izzie asked, coming up to the group. "What are we doing?"

"Uh, checking out the new chief candidate," George said.

Meredith nodded. "Chiefs in with the ringer. We're lurking, in a way that was subtle when there were three of us, but isn't now that there's twelve."

"I heard it was someone from Stanford," Cassie added. "Cristina, didn't you go there?"

Cristina smirked. "All the professors loved me."

"They loved you?" Alex raised a brow.

"I was a great student," she shrugged innocently.

Burke walked up to the group, focusing on Meredith and Cassie. "How are you two doing?"

"Oh, I'm fine sir," they said in unison, both smiling tightly. "Thank you."

"They don't like when you ask," George whispered to him, making him hum in acknowledgement.

Cristina pointed to the conference room. "The ringer is in there with the chief."

"Yeah," Cassie smiled teasingly. "And whoever it is loves Cristina cause everyone at Stanford just loved Cristina."

The girl in question shoved her. "Shut up."

Cassie playfully shoved her back. "Make me."

Burke shrugged, interrupting the duo. "She's a good student, nothing to be ashamed of."

"Thank you—"